Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2014]
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Volume 1. Introduction: Islam in America: A look at popular culture / Iraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards Part 1. Comedy and Theater: 1. There’s nothing funny about your people : Muslim-American humor in the post-9/11 world / Michael Malek Najjar 2. The struggle for transcendence: Iraqi Muslim women in Heather Raffo’s 9 parts of desire / Jennifer Douglas Part 2. Television: 3. Gender roles and marriage in Muslim-American reality TV / Mary Elizabeth Boucebci 4. Remapping terrorism stereotypes in Battlestar galactica / C.W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter 5. The big conceal: representations of the Hijab in Little mosque on the prairie / Mariam Esseghaier 6. Little mosque on the prairie: religious education on the airwaves? / Brenna Clark Gray Part 3. Film: 7. The race is on: Muslims and Arabs in the American imagination / Moustafa Bayoumi 8. The message: from radical terror to old but good / Andrea L. Stanton 9. Marked off: Hollywood’s untold story of Arabs, Muslims, and camels / Waleed F. Mahdi 10. Beyond Muezzins and Mujahideen: Middle-Eastern voices in post-9/11 Hollywood movies / Nolwenn Mingant Part 4. Popular Fiction and Poetry: 11. Normalizing Islam: representations of good and bad Muslims in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite runner / Shawn Picht 12. Muslim stereotypes in John Updike’s Terrorist / Mohammad Shaaban Deyab 13. What can a Pakistani-American novel tell us about America’s terrorist threat from within / Bidhan Chandra Roy 14. The enduring allure of Rumi and Sufism in American literature / Nilgün Anadolu-Okur 15. Thoroughly Muslim mystic: rewriting Rumi in America / Chenaz B. Seelarbokus 16. Sufis and converts : American-Muslim visions of Islam / Joseph Rega Part 5. Fantasy, Comics, and Digital Culture: 17. The influence of Muslims and Islam in science fiction, fantasy, and comics / Rebecca Hankins and Joyce Thornton 18. Frank Miller’s 300, before and after 9/11 / C.W. Marshall Part 6. Music: 19. Sonic bridges: the rise of Muslim-American music / Lori Zehra Goshert 20. Cut fr
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